On Jan 9, 2023, at 00:17, Michael D. Setzer II via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Well have to look into it. Was expecting the installation > of Fedora to handle the adding of Fedora to the current > boot setup. Don't recall it prompting for changing boot to > UEFI from the existing Legacy that the Windows 10 on > the Dell machine had. Bought the dell machine on ebay > for about $150 with 8G ram and 1T drive just to have a > windows machine around. Other 6 machines all Fedora. > So, don't have any windows installation media. So, at > precent the default boot on machine comes up with > Fedora, and no offer of windows in UEFI manager. Have > to use the F12 key, which then default to show the > Legacy boot from drive that brings up the Windows 10 > just fine. On my notebook, the grub menu has the > Window 7 as a boot option from sda2. The Dell also is > loading the windows from sda2 since sda1 is recovery > partition. Has sda3 as a FAT16 partition that was created > by install, since before disk only had sda1 and sda2.
Fedora will use the boot firmware that was used to boot the installation media. If you boot it as a legacy BIOS boot, it’ll use legacy. If you use UEFI, it will use that. It isn’t able to discern if that ntfs partition was a legacy boot OS or just a data partition. Perhaps there needs to be more logic about that, but at this point, legacy bios boot support is waning and it’s probably not worth the effort. I agree with the other post, you could boot it as a windows VM. -- Jonathan Billings _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
